Completing its fourth day of the resumed 2011 session, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) today recommended special consultative status for 25 entities to the Economic and Social Council, and postponed consideration of 26 additional groups until the Committee receive answers to its outstanding questions.

Minority and indigenous human rights
activists face exceptional levels of risk because they are targeted for
their identity as well as for their work, Minority Rights Group International
(MRG) says on International Human Rights Day.

Although Tanzania boasts political stability
and one of the fastest growing economies in sub-Saharan Africa, it still
faces alarming maternal mortality, rapid population growth, and widespread
poverty.

USAID is assisting Tanzania in responding
to these issues by helping to reduce malaria and HIV/AIDS, prevent maternal
deaths, expand agribusiness, and protect the environment, said Tanzania
Director Rob Cunnane on a recent trip to Washington.

NAIROBI, 5 May 2009 (IRIN) - More
people were newly displaced last year compared with the previous year,
but the number living in other parts of their homeland globally remained
stable over the same period, according to a report
by the Norwegian Refugee Council's Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring
Centre, which was released in New York.

It stated that the 26 million internally
displaced people (IDP) included 4.6 million newly displaced in 2008, up
900,000 from 2007, and an equivalent …

NEW YORK, United States, May 4 (UNHCR)
- The number of people living in other parts of their homeland after
fleeing conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations stood
at 26 million last year, unchanged from 2007, according to the Norwegian
Refugee Council (NRC).

A report
by NRC's Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, released
during a ceremony in New York last Friday, also said that the 26 million
internally displaced people (IDP) included 4.6 million newly displaced
in …

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour today presented her annual report to the Human Rights Council which was followed by an interactive dialogue. Ms. Arbour announced that this would be her last annual report, as she had informed the Secretary-General that she would not seek a second term when her mandate expired at the end of June 2008.